DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

SYLLABUS COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 4013

CATALOG LISTING:4013 Data Warehousing, 3 hours credit The strategies and processes for Data Warehousing of large relational databases. Topics include: understanding the role of data warehousing to businesses, understand data warehousing as a management tool, data warehousing as an emerging architecture and a data warehouse as it is designed to support the decision support system (DSS) function. Prerequisite: CIS 3183 or departmental permission.

EXPANDED COURSE DESCRIPTION: The strategies and processes for Data Warehousing of large relational databases.

Upon completion of the course students should:

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE

.... Understand the role of data warehousing to businesses and the compelling need for data warehousing.

I2,P3

.... Understand data warehousing as a management tool and know what are the building blocks of a data warehouse.

I2,I3

.... Understand data warehousing as an emerging architecture and what the trends are in data warehousing.

I2,I3

.... Know how to plan a data warehouse project and what are the differences in this project as to other IT projects.

A3

.... Understand the architectural components and infrastructure of data warehousing.